Get the branch name that is currently in jenkins

fetch_jenkins_branch_name.py

__author__ = 'wehappyfew'


# the url of jenkins config.xml
jenkins_url = 'http://11.11.111.11:8686/job/TheJob/config.xml'
j_user = "someone"
j_pass = "somepass"

def get_jenkins_branch_name(jenkins_url, j_user, j_pass):
	"""
		The function goes to the provided jenkins XML url,
		 authenticates with an authenticated user,
		 grabs the xml,
		 turns it to dictionary,
		 searches inside the dictionary for the branch name
	"""
	import requests,xmltodict
	from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

	# get the url with an authenticated user
	response = requests.get(jenkins_url, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(j_user, j_pass)) #the response must be 200

	# the content of the response is the xml
	xml = response.content

	# parse the xml to a dictionary
	jenkins_dict = xmltodict.parse(xml)

	# grab the actual branch name
	branch_name = jenkins_dict['project']['scm']['branches']['hudson.plugins.git.BranchSpec']['name']

	return branch_name